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Happy Birthday: Tony Robinson, 65

August 15 2011, 1:01am, The Times

Tony Robinson filming Time Team: The Secrets of Stonehenge for Channel 4Channel 4

The actor, writer and political activist Tony Robinson is best remembered for playing Baldrick in the BBC comedy series Blackadder. In June this year he married his girlfriend Louise Hobbs. He has two grown-up children from a previous marriage. Author of 18 children’s books, he presents the long-running Channel 4 archaeology programme Time Team, and was, for four years vice-president of the actors’ union Equity and on the Nation Executive of the Labour Party. RGT